オフ・ザ・レコード

noun

off the record

Used in journalism and formal settings to indicate that information is not for publication or attribution. Functions as a noun, often with の or as a な-adjective.

• その発はつ言げんはオフ・ザ・レコードでお願ねがいします。

  Please keep that remark off the record.

• オフ・ザ・レコードの話はなしとして聞きいてほしい。

  I'd like you to hear this as off-the-record information.